EL SALVADOR/U.S. AID

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01070R000201140003-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 10, 2008
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: April 4, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT
4 April 1984
EL SALVADOR/ JENNINGS: The Senate has been struggling over an
U.S. AID emergency aid package for El Salvador, $62 million. That
.is about a third less than the president originally
requested. As Anne Compton reports, the bill has been
running an obstacle course of crippling amendments.
COMPTON: The showdown came in a heated exchange on the
Senate floor. Opponents claim that Reagan policy is
leading to a wider war in El Salvador. Democrat Joseph
Biden (Del.)... 'I'll bet you a month's salary that in
fact there will be, if this president is reelected,
American military men fighting in El Salvador one year
from this day.' Democrat Edward Kennedy (Mass.)... 'This
is the last opportunity on this bill to say we want a
voice on whether American blood is to be shed in Central
America.' The administration is arguing El Salvador
cannot survive the next two months without emergency aid.
GEORGE SHULTZ (Secretary of State): Those funds are
essential and needed desperately and needed now.
.COMPTON: The war powers language forcing the White House
to get congressional permission to send in troops failed
by a wide margin, 59-to-36. UNIDENTIFIED MAN (Government
Official): If the majority of the United States Senate
said they were perfectly willing to have American armed
-forces fight on behalf of the Salvadorans....
COMPTON: Over the course of 50 hours debate, the
emergency request for the $62 million escaped repeated
attempts to cut the money off or tie the money to human
rights progress. Now the El Salvador aid, along with a
companion $21 million for covert aid to the rebels in
Nicaragua must clear still more hurdles, these in the
Democratic-controlled House of Representatives. Anne
Compton, ABC News, Capitol Hill.
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